"Vocational guidance focuses on how individuals live their present and on how they represent and plan, as much as they can, their own future. Satisfaction about one's present situation and predictions about one's future imply, at least in western societies, perception of a number of possibilities and options. Some will be more practicable than others and will allow reaching immediate advantages and reinforcements, while others will need considerable efforts to be pursued and realized to allow reinforcements and gratifications to be spread over time (even after many years). Some lucky people have such opportunities ready at hand, without having to struggle, thanks to others that make them available to them. Other people cannot see them, and others still - and these are the ones we most worry about- have very few opportunities or options, which are often also little attractive"
(Soresi & Nota, 2007, p. 306).